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Truman Capote
Age: 59 †
Born: 1924
Born: September 30
Died: 1984
Died: August 25
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New Orleans
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I couldn't understand a sense of unease that multiplied until I could hear my heart beating.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle.
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You can't blame a writer for what the characters say.
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Most secrets should never be told, but especially those that are more menacing to the listener than to the teller.
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I never had a rejection slip in my life.
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Nancy Clutter is always in a hurry, but she always has time. And that's one definition of a lady.
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I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.
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But, my dear, so few things are fulfilled: what are most lives but a series of incompleted episodes? 'We work in the dark, we do what we can, we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task...' It is wanting to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something.
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Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies.
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I'm scarcely an enfant!
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I'm sure Proust was a big bore.
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Past certain ages or certain wisdoms it is very difficult to look with wonder it is best done when one is a child after that, and if you are lucky, you will find a bridge of childhood and walk across it.
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Whatever relationship you have, man or woman, you have to be very attentive and you have to be a very good friend to them regardless of what they do.
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Of course, at their best, movies are anti-literature and, as a medium, belong not to writers, not to actors, but to directors.
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In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.
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To wake up one morning and feel that I was a last a grown-up person, emptied of resentment, vengeful thoughts and other wasteful childish emotions. To find myself, in other words, an adult. Truman Capote
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The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.
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The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.
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One of the most difficult things in writing a novel or anything at all is to choose the point of view from which it's going to be told.
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